Essays on Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was 20th century’s highly influential and infamous philosopher who was heavily criticized. He himself acknowledged the fact that the notion behind deconstruction was to break down the strong nation-states’ functionings with powerful immigration policies, to deconstruct the rhetoric of nationalism, the politics of place, the epistemology of native land as well as the...

In this literature review I will be addressing Jacques Derrida’s concepts on the ‘trait’ of drawing. Jacques Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images. Selected by Derrida from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre, the works depict blindness....

A branch of analysis that questions traditional assumptions about what we see, think, or do. Deconstructivism is a challenging of tradition and is often controversial. It started as an artistic movement that began in architecture by the end of the 1980s. It criticizes the rational order, purity, and simplicity of modern design and developed a...